Performance Studies

Bryan Reynolds is Chancellor's Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He has held visiting professorships at Queen Mary, University of London, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, University of Cologne, University College Utrecht, Goethe University-Frankfurt am Main, and the University of California, San Diego. His books include Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida, Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations, Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future, and Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. He is also an internationally produced playwright, performer and director of theatre.

• Introduction: The Ethical Drive; Bryan Reynolds1. The 'F' Word, Feminism's Critical Futures; Elaine Aston2. Public Sphere; Christopher Balme3. Paramodern; Stephen Barker4. Digital Culture; Sarah Bay-Cheng5. Misperformance; Marin Blaževi? and Lada ?ale Feldman6. Interval; Dylan Bolles and Peter Lichtenfels7. Neuroaesthetics, Technoembodiment; Susan Broadhurst 8. Recursion, Iteration, Difference; Johan Callens 9. Living History, Re-enactment; Marvin Carlson10. Performance Philosophy; Laura Cull11. Translation, Cultural Ownership; Maria M. Delgado12. The Intense Exterior; Rick Dolphijn13. Cosmopolitanism; Milija Gluhovic14. Cultural Diversity; Lynette Goddard15. Citizenship, The Ethics of Inclusion; Nadine Holdsworth16. Installation, Constellation; Lynette Hunter17. Spatial Concepts; Silvija Jestrovic18. Consensus, Dissensus; Adrian Kear19. Counter Propaganda, Resistance; Suk-Young Kim20. Ekstasis; Anthony Kubiak 21. Social Somatics; Petra Kuppers 22. Globalization, The Glocal, Third Space Theatre; Carl Lavery23. Theatre of Immediacy, Transversal Poetics; Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds24. Time in Theatre; Jerzy Limon25. Magic in Theatre; Mihai Maniutiu26. Empathetic Engagement; Bruce McConachie27. Theories of Festival; Christina S. McMahon28. Animality, Posthumanism; Jennifer Parker-Starbuck29. Postdramatic Theatre; Patrice Pavis30. Evo-Neuro-Theatre; Mark Pizzato31. International/ism; Janelle Reinelt32. Transculturation; Jon D. Rossini33. Social Practice; Maria Shevtsova34. City; Nicolas Whybrow Note on ContributorsIndex.